Homewood Suites’ joint builds

TORONTO-Wendy's and Tim Hortons did it. So did Swiss Chalet and Harvey's. And while Hilton's joint build hotels aren't quite the same as restaurant twinning, they do offer some of the same advantages. They require smaller plots of land.  The hotels can share common areas and services. And hotels can refer guests back and forth when one hotel is fully occupied.

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Dorothy Dowling explains descriptors

TORONTO-Best Western properties straddle the entire middle market, and its new descriptor strategy will help clear up the differences between high, middle and lower mid-market properties, said Dorothy Dowling, senior vice president marketing and sales, who was in Toronto recently to participate in the company's Annual Leisure Travel Summit Luncheon.

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Hotels face looming PCI DSS compliance date

TORONTO-Last year, following the announcement of the world's largest breach of payment card information, more attention was paid to existing regulations requiring merchants accepting payment cards, and service providers who performed card transaction processing for these merchants, to prove their compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

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